The dominant Europe-centred paradigm in #CooperativeEconomics means the field is working with an incomplete, therefore inadequate, record of the rich diversity of ways people have understood and practised cooperation as an economic strategy. For instance, the #AfricanPhilosophy of #Ubuntu imparts a model in which cooperation is a perpetually sought ideal state and seeking it creates cooperative economic relations.
Read more in my blog from the #AtlanticFellows at LSE: https://afsee.atlanticfellows.lse.ac.uk/en-gb/blogs/how-piecing-together-an-ubu-ntu-cooperative-model-made-me-want-to-write-again
